Highest Human Development Index

{python} highest_HDI_value

{python} highest_HDI_country

Lowest Human Development Index

{python} str(lowest_HDI_value)

{python} lowest_HDI_country

Uganda HDI

{python} str(ug_HDI_value)

Uganda HDI

{python} str(ug_HDI_value)

Highest Human Development Index

np.float64(0.967)

Switzerland

Lowest Human Development Index

0.38

Somalia

Uganda HDI

0.55

Africa shows markedly lower life expectancy figures compared to other continents, reflecting significant developmental challenges. Europe and Oceania demonstrate the most consistently high life expectancies, while Asia and the Americas show greater variability, indicating diverse development stages within these regions.

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Africa shows markedly lower life expectancy figures compared to other continents, reflecting significant developmental challenges. Europe and Oceania demonstrate the most consistently high life expectancies, while Asia and the Americas show greater variability, indicating diverse development stages within these regions.

This data comes from the python plotly.express library’s gapminder dataset, which is originally sourced from the Gapminder Foundation.

The Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increasing use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development.

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